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'When Herrlee Creel some eighty years ago posed the question What is Daoism? the proffered answers (including his own) have at best enjoyed only piecemeal and contentious acceptance. Zornica Kirkova's study effectively uncovers one core component at the very heart of Daoism, present from its very beginnings: immortality. She does a fascinating job of illuminating the ways in which it was actively imagined, pursued, and represented both by Daoists themselves and other literati figures who saw themselves as inhabiting the Daoist world. Kirkova accomplishes this by way of her meticulous and painstaking efforts to document the ways in which the concept of immortality changed and developed as seen from the perspective of early medieval Chinese verse. Her book goes a long way in responding to Creel's question.(...) Roaming into the Beyond is stunning in both its scope and its detail. It simultaneously engages two heretofore somewhat separate topics, Chinese poetry, which we typically associate with the literati class, and Daoism, which we tend to associate either with hermits or ecclesiastics.(...) Without doubt, Roaming into the Beyond will long hold its unique place in both literary studies and Daoist studies. There is really nothing that compares to it in its seamless ability to bring the two fields together in such spectacular fashion. Kirkova's work is truly groundbreaking.' Thomas Michael, China Review International, 22/1 (2015)

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Zornica Kirkova, Ph.D. (2007), Charles University in Prague, is currently a librarian at the East Asian Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Her research focuses on classical and early medieval Chinese literature, Daoism, and Daoist literature.

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